Between “the cuckoo and the faint star”[1], we plunge into the words of José Loureiro. The cuckoo represents the human being who does everything to achieve his ends. In this way he punishes, mistreats the other on his longed-for path. On the other side, the...
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Usina de Arte (inaugurated in 2015) is an exceptional initiative of the Pessoa de Queiroz family in Água Preta, Zona da Mata Sul, Pernambuco, a place that is currently marked by great cultural controversy.Usina emerges as a provocation to give another meaning to the past...
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Starting with the first lockdown in March, specifically from the fifth day, Daniel Blaufuks reproduces the same format as the weather report videos David Lynch has since added to his Instagram. In these short clips, Lynch reads weather forecasts, commenting poetically on the boring thermal variation of Los Angeles,...
Starting with the first lockdo...
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Twice a month, UMBIGO invites one person to share their 5 cultural suggestions. What can we do at home? From a book to a podcast, album or film: here are recommendations from artists, curators, gallery owners, cultural activists, friends.We will share the recipe for what...
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Ash is an ethereal substance, it conveys intangibility, and undeniably is the material that evidences the passage of both corporeal and elemental time. David Claerbout has worked tirelessly for many years to capture the possibilities of temporal delay and expedition, such that his artistic practice...
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In the exhibition Facing Bare Life, at MNAC, Emília Tavares shows works by three artists, developed during the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. João Pina, Luciana Fina and Vasco Barata, through their different expressions, open complex questions about the current global tensions, caused by...
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In this interview, Giulia Damiani shares her reflections on her deep research embodiment in relation to Italian art group Le Nemesiache. She sources her practice as a writer, curator, and dramaturge. She is completing her PhD in the Art department at Goldsmiths University, London. Her...
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Let’s start with the beginning and the first form of contact with this exhibition, its title: Ballad of Today. There are many titles, figurative or literal, more participant or determinant than others, concerning the projects in question. In this one, I think it is important...
Let’s start with the beginni...
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Louise Bourgeois (Paris 1911 - New York 2010) became one of the most important artists, especially since the 80s, having created a work that remains up-to-date and surprisingly challenging. After her first solo exhibition in 1947, there were others. Some covered a large part of...
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Boys Appetite emerged in 2017 when Miguel Flor began to gather and sub-label the first images in the series, presented later at Mota Galiza (Oporto), in June 2019; at Slou (Lisbon), in December 2019; at Galeria Nuno Centeno (Oporto), in January 2020; and during Walk&Talk...
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